Definition of "lawyerlike" [law•yer•like]

• Resembling a lawyer or some aspect of one. (adjective)

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• "Nick, she noticed, looked a bit less lawyerlike with his suit jacket slung on the back of his chair and his tie loosened."
• "Typical lawyerlike manipulation of letter of the law."
• "Most of us thought that during the past few years Janet Reno's antitrust czar and his prosecution team were turned on by lawyerlike stuff like consent decrees, special masters and making Bill Gates's lawyers look like crash dummies in court."